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Few topics in the church divide as sharply as speaking in tongues. Most conversations about it produce one of two reactions: uncritical enthusiasm or nervous dismissal. This episode offers a third option: careful biblical theology applied with pastoral warmth. Khalil, Sean, and Jeff trace the gift of tongues through Acts 2, 1 Corinthians 12 through 14, and the arc of church history, addressing the...

If you are a Christian who keeps sinning despite genuinely wanting to stop, this episode was made for you. And the answer is not that you need more willpower. The answer is that you have been fighting the wrong way. Khalil, Sean, and Jeff unpack the biblical concept of mortification of sin, what Paul means in Romans 7 when he describes the experience of doing what he does not want to do, and why t...

The incarnation is not just a doctrine about Christmas. It is a pattern for mission. Jesus did not commute to earth. He moved in. He shared meals, touched lepers, showed up at weddings. The theological term for this pattern is incarnational living, and it is exactly what most Christians are not doing. Guest Lee Rogers, Director of Student Evangelism for the Assemblies of God, joins Khalil and the...

Holiness is not a list of things you do not do. It is a participation in the nature of God. When you reduce it to a behavioral checklist, you end up with exactly what the broader culture already rightly critiques: religious performance without transformation. Khalil traces holiness through the lives of Daniel, Israel in Babylon, and the early church, all of whom maintained the distinction of God's...

There is a growing number of Christians who feel like they do not belong anywhere. The culture does not want what they believe. And their church often does not know how to form them in the direction their faith is pointing. That feeling has a name in Scripture. It is exile. Khalil and the team explore the biblical theme of exile, from Israel's captivity in Babylon to Peter's description of believe...

After a year-long break, Welcome to the Table is back, and this episode is an honest account of why it went quiet and what has changed since. Khalil shares his transition out of full-time youth ministry, the launch of Growing Godly as a structured discipleship system, and his marriage. Jeff celebrates the birth of his son. Sean reflects on graduate school and new responsibilities. This is not a po...

You are anxious — not just occasionally but as a default operating mode. You move fast, stay busy, scroll to decompress, and still feel unsettled underneath it all. And part of you knows the fix is not more information, a better evening routine, or one more productivity system. But you are not sure what it actually is. Forty percent of adults identify as anxious, and that number has not moved in y...

The question “who is my neighbor?” is not new. A lawyer asked Jesus the same thing — and was hoping the answer would narrow the category, not expand it. Most of us are still doing the same thing. We want to love our neighbor without actually knowing them, without any inconvenience, and without having to change our schedule. The Good Samaritan did not have that option. Neither do we. Troy Pomeroy h...

Your calendar is full. You know it. And somewhere in the back of your mind is the thought that God has more for you — but getting to it requires getting through everything already on the list. The problem is that list never gets shorter. And the question quietly forming underneath it is whether you are too busy for the future God actually has in mind. Sabbath is the only commandment most Christian...

You are carrying things you have never told anyone. Not because you do not know you should — you know the verse. But something in you believes that the moment you say it out loud, it becomes more real, more shameful, or more permanent. So you keep it private. And it keeps its grip on you. Confession is not primarily a Catholic sacrament or a step in a recovery program. It is one of the oldest and...

At some point you made a decision. You said yes to Jesus. What you may not have been told is that discipleship is not the moment of yes — it is a lifetime of it. And the deeper question is not whether you are willing to follow Jesus, but whether you are willing to keep following when following gets costly and the destination is still unclear. Lori Warning has spent decades in full-time ministry, m...

Most Christians have more books on their shelf than pages in their body. You buy them with good intentions, start them in January, and find them face-down on the nightstand by March. But the right book at the right time has a way of doing what sermons and podcasts sometimes cannot: it follows you into the slow moments and changes how you think when nobody is watching. This episode started as a sim...

You know you are supposed to have joy. The New Testament commands it more than almost any other emotional state. But most of us treat joy the same way we treat the weather — something that happens to us, not something we have any say over. When it is present, we are grateful. When it is not, we wait for it to come back. Nobody told us we are supposed to choose it. Philippians 4:8 is not a suggesti...

Most people know God is eternal. Almost nobody has stopped to think about what that actually means — or why it should change anything about Monday morning. Eternity feels like an abstraction, a theological category to nod at and move past. It is not. It is one of the most practically stabilizing truths in all of Scripture. God does not experience time the way you do. He has no beginning and no end...

If you have watched someone you love walk away from the faith, you have probably asked why. Not the easy answer — doubt, or a bad experience — but the deeper one. Something about the version of Christianity they encountered did not hold. This episode is willing to name what that something often is, even when the church would rather look the other way. This is Part 2 of Khalil and Sean's breakdown...

Are you ready to dive deep into the limitless nature of God? In this awe-inspiring episode of the Welcome to the Table Podcast, we'll explore the infinity attribute of God, a concept that stretches our understanding and invites us to experience God in an entirely new way. So, grab your headphones and join us at the table for this thought-provoking and soul-stirring conversation. Follow & Suppo...

You have ended friendships and felt guilty about it for years. You have stayed in relationships that slowly drained you because you did not know how to let them wind down without feeling like a bad person. Nobody told you that not every relationship is meant to go the same depth — and that protecting that boundary is not selfish. It is discernment. Will Caesar is back at the table, and this time t...

Something is happening in the church. People who grew up in the faith — kids who got baptized, went on mission trips, led worship — are walking away. Not all at once. Quietly, over years, in a direction you did not see coming. And the church's most common responses have been either to hold tighter or to look the other way. Neither is working. Khalil and Sean open Carey Nieuwhof's landmark article...

You are moving so fast through life that you rarely stop to learn from it. The week ends, a new one begins, and whatever God was trying to do in the middle of it gets buried under the next task and the next commitment. The truth is, you are not too busy to reflect. You might be afraid of what will surface when you do. Reflection is one of the most under-taught spiritual disciplines in the church —...

You probably do not bow to wooden statues. Your idols are more sophisticated — and more dangerous because of it. The approval you are still searching for. The thing you cannot say no to. The area of your life where the thought of losing it would feel like losing yourself. Idolatry is not ancient history. It is your Monday morning. Khalil and Sean do something in this episode that is easy to talk a...

Something shifted when ChatGPT arrived. Not just in the tech industry — in the church, in discipleship, and in the quiet assumptions about what a pastor, mentor, or teacher is actually for. If an AI can answer every theological question, summarize every book, and generate a sermon in thirty seconds, what exactly is the human still needed for? The question is not whether AI is useful — it clearly i...

You have watched someone you love lose their faith. Or you have felt it happening in yourself — not dramatically, just quietly, over years, until the certainty you once had is harder to locate than you remember. Deconstruction is not new. It is not foreign to God. But if nobody helps you navigate it, it can end somewhere you never intended to go. Charlie, a district youth and children's director i...

You have been trying to change your behavior. You know what you should do and you keep not doing it. What you do not always see is that your behavior is the output of your loves — what you desire at the deepest level — and until those are addressed, behavioral change stays temporary. James K. A. Smith's insight, drawn from Augustine, is simple and devastating: you are not primarily a thinking thin...

You have heard that God is spirit. It sounds like a doctrinal footnote — something to note and move past. But what God told the Samaritan woman in John 4 was not an abstract philosophical statement. It was an invitation that redefined what worship is, who can practice it, and what it requires. A God who is spirit cannot be contained by a location, a building, or a set of rituals. This is the God w...

Most Christians have strong feelings about Pentecostalism — and most of those feelings are based on a misunderstanding of what it actually means. For some, it conjures images of charismatic excess they want nothing to do with. For others, it is a denominational badge tied more to worship style than to biblical substance. Guest Will Caesar thinks both groups are missing something the church despera...